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Mazdak (Mazdakism was a 1500 year old Socialist religion), article in The Open Court 1921
A Dictionary of Religion and Ethics by Shailer Matthews 1922
The Religions of the World by George Barton 1917
The Religions of the World by George M Grant 1895
Great Religions of the World by Herbert Giles 1902
The Religions of the Ancient World by George Rawlinson 1885
The World's Religions in a Nutshell by Louis P Mercer 1893
Non-Christian religions of the world by William Muir 1890
Religions of the World and their Relation to Christianity by FD Maurice 1854
Ten Great Religions by James F Clark 1872
The Religions of Eastern Asia by Horace G Underwood 1910
The Religions and Philosophies of the East by JM Kennedy 1911
What Religion Is, by Bernard Bosanquet 1920
Custom and Myth by Andrew Lang 1910
The Passing of Korea by Homer Hulbert 1906
The Golden Bough; a study in Magic and Religion by Sir James George Frazer 1922
The Spirit of Zoroastrianism by Henry S Olcott 1913
Zoroastrian ethics by M Buch 1919
The Treasure of the Magi, a study of modern Zoroastrianism by James Hope Moulton 1917
A Catechism of the Zoroastrian religion by J Modi 1911
Zoroastrianism and Judaism by George W Carter 1918
Animism, the seed of Religion by Edward Clodd 1905
Animism; or, Thought currents of primitive peoples by George W Gilmore 1919
Body and Mind - a history and a defense of Animism by William McDougall 1918
The Influence of Animism on Islam - an account of popular superstitions 1920 by Samuel Marinus Zwemer
Spiritual and mental concepts of the Maori by Elsdon Best 1922
Specimens of Bushman folklore by WHI Bleek 1911
The Origin of Man and of his Superstitions by Carveth Read 1920
The religion of the Chinese by JJM de Groot 1910
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead by James George Frazer 1910
Spiritism and the Cult of the Dead in Antiquity by Lewis Bayles Paton - 1921
A brief account of the Bahai movement by Ethel Rosenberg 1911
Bahai Revelation by Thornton Chase 1913
The Bahai Movement for Universal Religion by Charles M Remey 1912
Bahai - The Spirit Of The Age by Horace Holley 1921
Universal principles of the Bahai movement (Social, Economic, Governmental) 1912
The Dawn of Knowledge and the most Great Peace by Paul Kingston Dealy 1908
Some Answered Questions by Abdul Baha 1908
The New Day - the Bahai Revelation, a brief statement of its History and Teaching by Charles M Remey 1919
Bahaism, the Religion of Brotherhood and its Place in the Evolution of Creeds by Francis Henry Skrine 1912
The Splendour of God - being extracts from the sacred writings of the Bahais by Eric Hammond 1911
The Peace of the World - a brief treatise upon the spiritual teaching of the Bahai religion by Charles M Remey 1919
The Covenant by Charles M Remey 1912
The Reconciliation of Races and Religions by TK Cheyne 1914 (Bahai)
Bahaism and its Claims by Samuel G Wilson 1915
The Book of Ighan by Baha'u'llah 1907 (Bahai)
Tablet of Tarazat, Tablet of the world, Words of Paradise, Tablet of Tajalleyat, The Glad Tidings by Baha'u'llah 1913 (Bahai)
The Oriental Rose - The teachings of Abdul Baha by Mary H Ford 1910
The Behai Proofs by Mirza Abul Fazl 1902
Buddha and Buddhism by Arthur Lillie 1900
Buddhism and Immortality by William Bigelow 1908
Buddhism and Science by Paul Dahlke 1913
Buddhist Psalms 1921
Buddhist Stories by Paul Dahlke 1913
Early Buddhism by TW Rhys Davis 1908
Esoteric Buddhism by AP Sinnett 1883
Essays in Logos and Gnosis in Relation to Neo-Buddhist Theosophy by Thomas Simcox 1905
The Heart of Buddhism by KJ Saunders 1915
The Buddha and the Christ by Henry Niles 1894
Buddha and Buddhism by Arthur Lillie 1900
The Creed of Buddha by Edmond Holmes 1908
The Buddha and his Religion by J Barthe´lemy Saint-Hilaire 1895
The Story of Gautama Buddha and His Creed by Richard Phillips 1871
The story of the Buddha by Edith Holland 1918
Primitive Buddhism - its origin and teachings by Elizabeth Reed 1896
Buddhism - being a sketch of the life and teachings of Gautama, the Buddha by Thomas Davids 1887
The Lotus Gospel - Mahayana Buddhism and its symbolic teachings compared historically and geographically with those of Catholic Christianity by Elizabeth Anna Gordon 1911
Buddhism Its History And Literature by T. W Rhys Davids 1907
Buddhism And Its Christian Critics by Dr. Paul Carus 1906
Magic and Fetishism by Alfred C Haddon 1906
The Fetish Folk of West Africa by Robert H Milligan 1912
Fetishism and Fetish Worshippers by P Baudin 1885
Fetichism in West Africa by Robert Nassau 1904
The Tshi-speaking peoples of the Gold Coast of West Africa - Their religion, manners, customs, laws, language by AB Ellis 1887
Hindu God and Heroes by Lionel Barnett 1922
Philosophy of the Hindoo Trinity 1830
The Hindu Book of Astrology by Bhakti Seva 1902
Lectures on Hindu religion, philosophy and Yoga by K Chakravarti 1893
A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion by John Dowson 1888
Hindu Philosophy - The Bhagavad Gita by John Davies 1907
The Hindu conception of the functions of breath by Arthur H Ewing 1901
The Popular Religion and Folk-lore of Northern India, Volume 1 by William Crooke 1896
The Popular Religion and Folk-lore of Northern India, Volume 2 by William Crooke 1896 (Totemism & Fetishism, Tree and Serpent Worship, The Evil Eye and Scarig of Ghosts, the Black Art)
Studies in early Indian thought by Dorothea Jane Stephen 1918
Outlines of Indian philosophy by PT Srinivasa Iyengar 1909
The Religions and Philosophies of the East by JM Kennedy 1911
Brahman: a study in the history of Indian philosophy by Hervey Griswold 1900
The Great Indian Religions, being a popular account of Brahmanism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Zoroastrianism with accounts of the Vedas and other Indian sacred books, the Zendabesta, Sikhism, Jainism, Mithraism, etc by GT Bettany 1892
The Evolution of Hinduism by Maurice Phillips 1903
Illuminated Brahmanism - The True Theosophy by Thomas C Buddington 1889
History of the Hindu Triad, (Brahma, Vishnu Siva) as Described in the Sacred Books of the Hindus 1900
The Philosophy of the Upanishads and ancient Indian Metaphysics by Archibald E Gough 1882
Vedic Mythology by Arthur Anthony Macdonell 1897
Indian Wisdom, the religious, philosophical, and ethical doctrines of the Hindus by Monier Williams 1876
The Story of Islam by Theodore Lunt 1916
Ishmael - a natural history of Islamism by John Muehleisen Arnold 1859
The History and Conquests of the Saracens by Edward A Freeman 1876
A Short History of the Near East by William S Davis 1922
Ishmael and the Church by Lewis Cheesman 1856
The early development of Mohammedanism by DS Margoliouth 1914
Judaism and Islam by Abraham Geiger 1898
The Rage of Islam - an account of the massacre of Christians by the Turks in Persia by Yonan Shahbaz 1918
The Reproach of Islam by WHT Gairdner 1908
Pearls of the Faith - Islam's Rosary by Edwin Arnold 1883
Jainism, the Early Faith of Asoka by Edward Thomas 1877
The Heart of Jainism by Sinclair Stevenson 1915
Studies in South Indian Jainism by MS Ramaswami Ayyangar 1922
Outlines of Jainism by Jagomandar Jaini 1916
Jainism in Western garb as a solution to life's great problems by Herbert Warren 1912
The Kalpa Sutra and Nava tatva: two works Illustrative of the Jain Religion and Philosophy by John Stevenson 1848
Notes on modern Jainism by Sinclair Stevenson 1910
An Epitome of Jainism being a critical study of its metaphysics, ethics, and history by Puran C Nahar 1917
Judaism and its History by Abraham Geiger, 1911
What is Judaism by Abram Isaacs 1912
Jewish Christians and Judaism, a study in the history of the first two centuries by WR Sorley 1881
The Source of the Christian Tradition - a critical history of ancient Judaism by Edouard Dujardin, 1910
Short survey of the literature of Rabbinical and Medieval Judaism by W.O.F. Oesterley 1920
Hebrew religion to the establishment of Judaism under Ezra by William Edward Addis, 1906
The Makers and Teachers of Judaism by Charles Foster Kent 1911
The Early History of the Hebrews by A.H. Sayce 1897
The History of the Religion of Israel - an Old Testament Primer by Crawford Toy 1902
The Theology and Ethics of the Hebrews by Archibald Duff 1902
Jewish forerunners of Christianity by Adolphe Danziger 1903
Jewish Religious Life after the Exile by TK Cheyne 1915
The Origin and Growth of the Hebrew Religion by Henry T Fowler 1916
The Synagogue and the Church - being an attempt to show that the government, ministers and services of the church were derived from those of the synagogue by Joshua Bernard 1842
The Old Testament Among the Semitic Religions by George R Berry 1910
Religious Development between the Old and the New Testaments by RH Charles 1914
The Religion of Israel by John Bayne Ascham 1918
Some Jewish Women by Henry Zirndorf 1892
Jewish Theology: Systematically and Historically Considered by Dr K Kohler 1918
Jew and Gentile, essays on Jewish apologetics and kindred historical subjects by Gotthard Deutsch 1920
Shinto the Mythology of the Japanese by Romyn Hitchcock 1893
Shinto, the ancient religion of Japan by WG Aston 1921
Shinto the Way of the Gods by WG Aston 1905
The political philosophy of modern Shinto by Daniel C Holtom 1922
The Shinto Cult - a Christian study of the ancient religion of Japan by Milton S Terry 1910
The Religions of Eastern Asia by Horace Underwood 1910
Occult Japan - The way of the Gods an esoteric study of Japanese personality and possession by P Lowell 1895
Religion in Japan - Shintoism, Buddhism, Christianity by George A Cobbold 1894
Shinran and his work - studies in Shinshu theology by Arthur Lloyd 1910
Myths and Legends of Japan by Frederick Hadland Davis - 1913
Parsi, Jaina and Sikh, or, Some minor religious sects in India by Douglas Thornton 1898
Sikhism by Annie wood Besant 1920
The Sikh Religion, its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, Volume 1 by Max A Macauliffe 1909
The Sikh Religion, its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, Volume 2 by Max A Macauliffe 1909
The Sikh Religion, its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, Volume 3 by Max A Macauliffe 1909
The Sikh Religion, its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, Volume 4 by Max A Macauliffe 1909
The Sikh Religion, its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, Volume 5 by Max A Macauliffe 1909
The Sikh Religion, its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, Volume 6 by Max A Macauliffe 1909
In the Sikh sanctuary by Thanwardas Lilaram Vaswani 1922
A Short History of the Sikhs by CH Payne 1915
What does Christianity mean? by William Faunce 1912
Am I a Christian, article in the Manifesto Restaurant
Why I am a Christian
Why Are You Become a Catholic by R Sibthorp 1842
Why a Catholic in the 19th Century by William Dix 1878
Why I am a Mormon by by OF Ursenbach 1910
Why I Am What I Am 1891 - Chapters include: WHY I AM A BAPTIST, WHY I AM A PRESBYTERIAN, WHY I AM A METHODIST EPISCOPALIAN, WHY I AM AN EPISCOPALIAN, WHY I AM A CATHOLIC, WHY I AM A CONGREGATIONALISM, WHY I AM A UNIVERSALIST, WHY I AM A NEW-CHURCHMAN, WHY I AM A UNITARIAN, WHY I AM A JEW, WHY I AM A LUTHERAN, WHY I AM A FRIEND, WHY I AM A DISCIPLE, WHY I AM A SEVENTH-DAY BAPTIST (Multiple authors)
Why I am a churchman by William Odom 1912
The Primitive Churchman, Or, Reasons why I am not an Episcopalian 1851
Reasons why I am a Unitarian by JR Beard 1872
Why I Am a Churchman by George Randall 1878
Why I am a Methodist by James Lawson 1886
Three reasons why I am a Baptist by JM Pendleton 1903
Why I am a Protestant by W Stephenson 1872
Why I believe the Bible by D Burrell 1917
What I believe and why I believe it by Ronald Blight 1913
Why I am a Christian By John Jabez Lanier 1914
Why I am a Christian - A few reasons for our faith By William Edward Heygate 1876
Why I am Content to be a Christian by Ernest de Witte Burton, article in The Biblical world 1909
Why I am a Christian, 3 articles in the Upper Room Bulletin 1920
Why I am a Christian Socialist, article in the Arena Magazine 1907
The Faith of Catholics confirmed by Scripture and attested by the Fathers by Joseph Berington 1830
Why I believe in Jesus Christ, by Shailer Matthews 1921
Primers of the Faith by James Gray 1906
Yahvism and other Discourses by Adolph Moses 1903 (Who Is the Real Atheist? Losing God and Finding God, The Reasons Why I Believe in God, Why I Am a Jew)
The faith by which we live by Charles Fiske 1919 (Chapter 2 - Why I believe in God)
Christ in Modern Life by SA Brooke (Sermons) 1872
Our Churches and Why we Belong to Them by WJ Little 1898
(Church of England, Congregational Church, Baptist Church, Wesleyan Methodist Church, Society of Friends, Established Church of Scotland, Free Church of Scotland, United Presbyterian Church, Welsh Calvanistic Church, Church of England (Evangelical))
The Pitts-street chapel lectures 1858 (Why I am a Methodist, "Why are you a Universalist?, "Why I am a Baptist, Why am I a Trinitarian Congregationalist? Why I am a churchman, Why I am a Unitarian, Spiritual Christianity)
Is Christianity true? 1904
Faith made easy; or, What to believe, and why by James Potts 1888
Why We Christians Believe in Christ by Charles Gore 1904
What do Reformed Episcopalians believe? by Charles Cheney 1888
I believe in God the Father Almighty by John Barrows 1892
I believe in God and in evolution by William Keen 1922
Reasons why we should believe in God, love God, and obey God by Peter Burnett 1884
The Reason of Faith - An answer unto that enquiry, wherefore we believe the Scripture to be the Word of God by John Owen 1801
The Book of Books by John Lea 1922
The Christian Professor Addressed in a series of counsels and cautions to the members of Christian churches by John James 1838
Why do you believe the Bible to be the word of God (some pages missing - some hard to read) by Josiah Bateman 1851
Why we Believe the Bible by John Phillips Thurston Ingraham 1916
Reason and authority in religion by James Sterrett 1891 (Why do I believe the Catholic Faith)
My study, and other essays by Austin Phelps (Why do I believe Christianity to be a Revelation FROM God?)
A Protestant Converted to Catholicity by her Bible and prayer-book by Fanny Pittar 1904
How I got faith - Confessions of a Converted Infidel by Willis Brown 1914
Confessions of a Converted Infidel by John Bayley 1856
Charles Elwood - the Infidel Converted by Augustus Brownson 1845
Can a man be converted after he is 23 by William Barton 1904
Discussion of the Existence of God, and the Authenticity of the Bible
by Origen Bacheler, Robert Dale Owen 1840
On the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God as Manifested in the Creation of Animals
by William Kirby - 1835
Cyclopedia of Moral and Religious Anecdotes 1851 by K Arvine
Why Do Religions Die? 1921
Why Do Religions Die - A Reply by A Eustace Haydon 1921
Outlines of the History of Religion to the spread of the Universal Religions by C.P. Tiele - 1877
The Religions Before Christ by Edmond de Pressensé - 1862
National Religions and Universal Religions by Abraham Kuenen 1882
A Christian's Appreciation of their Faiths - a study of the Best in the World's Greatest Religions by Gilbert Reid 1921
Gentilism - Religion Previous to Christianity by Aug. J Thebaud 1876
The Faiths of Mankind by Edmund D Soper 1918
Non-Biblical Systems of Religion by FW Farrar 1887
A History of Religions - Scientific Research and Philosophical Criticism by Elizabeth Evans 1893
The Early Spread of Religious Ideas by Joseph Edkins 1893
History of all Religions by Samuel M Smucker 1881
Great Religious Teachers of the East by Alfred W Martin 1911
Comparative Religion by Fb Jevons 1913
History of Religions by George Foot Moore 1913
The Religions of the World and their Relations to Christianity Considered by Frederick Denison Maurice 1886
The Progress of Religious Ideas, Volume 1 by L Maria Child 1855
The Progress of Religious Ideas, Volume 2 by L Maria Child 1855
The Progress of Religious Ideas, Volume 3 by L Maria Child 1855
An Analysis of Religious Belief by Viscount Amberley 1877
The Lords of the Ghostland by Edgar Saltus 1907 (Brahms, Ormuzd, Amon-R a, Bel-Marduk, Jebovah, Zeus, Jupiter)
Religions of Bible Lands by DS Margoliouth 1902
Popular Aspects of Oriental Religion by L.O. Hartman 1917
The Faiths of the World - a Concise History of the Great Religious Systems of the World 1882
True and False Religion by John H Arnold 1853
Essay on the common Features which appear in all forms of Religious Belief by Robert Needham Cust 1895
Religions of the Past and Present by James A Montgomery 1918
Gods and Devils of Mankind by Frank S Dobbins 1897
Departed Gods - The Gods of our Forefathers by JN Fradenburgh 1891
The Distinctive Messages of the Old Religions by George Matheson 1893
The Story of Religions by E.D. Price 1920
Fire from Strange Altars by JN Fradenburgh 1891
Progress in Religion to the Christian Era by TR Glover 1922
Religious denominations of the World by Vincent Milner 1874
Rays of light from all Lands - the Bibles and Beliefs of Mankind by EC Towne
Forerunners and Rivals of Christianity - Religious History from 330 B.C. to 330 A.D by F Legge 1915
What the World Believes, the False and the True, the People of all Races and Nations, their Peculiar Teachings, Rites, Ceremonies from the earliest Pagan Times to the present by Albert Layton Rawson 1886
The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism by Franz Cumont 1911
Studies in the History of Religions by Crawford Howell Toy 1912
The Land of the Veda by William Butler 1873
Lawa'ih - a Treatise on Sufism 1906
Sufism - Omar Khayyam and E. Fitzgerald by CHA Bjerregaard 1915
The Sufism of the Rubaiyat 1908
Studies in Islamic Mysticism by Reynolde Alleyne Nicholson 1921
Manual of the Science of Religion PD Chantepie de la Saussaye 1891
The Book of Religions by John Hayward 1845
The Career of the God-Idea in History by Hudson Tuttle 1869
The Unknown God - Inspiration among Pre-Christian Races by C Loring Brace 1890
The Earliest Cosmologies - the universe as pictured in thought by the Ancient Hebrews, Babylonians, Egyptians, Greeks, Iranians, and Indo-Aryans by William Fairfield Warren 1909
An Introduction to the History of Religion by Frank Byron Jevons 1896
Cults, Myths and Religions by Salomon Reinach 1912
The Beginnings of Religion by Thomas Scott Bacon 1887
